ADAudit Plus

active directory auditing

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is a web based Active Directory change audit software. It provides comprehensive reports on almost every change that occurs in your Windows Active Directory. ADAudit
Plus helps you scrutinize every change in Active Directory, while ensuring the change is in conformance with standards set by IT regulatory acts!

It helps audit and track all changes in the Active Directory. Active Directory changes on Users, Computers, Groups, GPOs, Ous, Domain Policies and logon activities are audited and reported from a central web console.

Benefits of ADAudit Plus

Audit every change in Active Directory: Know the 4 dimensions of a change-"who" did "what", "when" and from "where"-and ensure changes conform to organizational policies.

Supervision over crucial activities: Get prepackaged reports on crucial activities such as user logon actions and changes to GPO/OU/groups/computer/domain policies.

Crisis Detection & Prevention: Get alerted about anomalies early on and prevent them from magnifying into crisis.

Make IT compliance a happy experience: With incredible ease, extract any data demanded by IT regulatory acts such as PCI, SOX, HIPAA, GLBA and FISMA.

Organized Archiving: Archive audit data for periods stipulated by IT regulatory acts and in a catalogued fashion, so that regeneration of reports becomes easy.

You"re able to make sure that (in real-time) critical resources in your network - like Domain Controllers will be monitored, audited as well as reported with complete information on Groups, GPO, Users, Computer and OU changes!

There are over 200 event-specific and detailed reports as well as immediate active directory alerts via email.

Over 100 canned / Pre-configured reports:
ADAudit Plus provides over 100 pre-configured reports covering a wide variety of Active Directory audit requirements in an organization. The reports are grouped under User Logon, Local Logon-Logoff, Account Management, User Management, Group Management, Computer Management, Domain Policy Changes, OU Management and GPO Management categories. Further, the data in each report is intelligently listed under various headers of audit importance, added to this you have an Add / Remove column option for selective viewing / reporting of Audit questions.

A graphical representation of various audit events via. trend analysis charts:
An administrator can view graphical representations of the changes to most important objects in the entire domain right from the Dashboard view of ADAudit Plus. Click on the dashboard graphs and also view reports. They show charts through which Trends can be analyzed and also capacity expansions can be planned with a single view.

Real-time alerts and Email Notifications:
Instant Alerts on desired / undesired audit events can be configured. These alerts are based on report profiles configured and an e-mail notification to the administrator or any selected user(s) can also be configured. This is a definitive way to monitor critical changes.

Custom Reporting:
ADAudit Plus provides custom audit reporting capabilities; the custom reports are built over preconfigured reports by mapping specific objects of desire to the actions that are reported. (Users, Computers or groups are considered as objects in Active Directory.)

Advanced configuration option to even define audit actions for select audit categories:
For select category of reports, make use of the Advanced Configuration ADAudit Plus option to modify any built-in audit action within ADAudit Plus. This allows you to selectively view an audit report for the action expected by you.

Automated audit reporting:
Some audit reports in your domain are frequent events like user creation that require periodic administrator attention. These reports can be scheduled and ADAudit Plus will provide reports automatically at scheduled times, take it a step further â€œdecide the user to be notified and configure his email for periodic email notifications of this scheduled reportâ€. Multiple schedules can be created for different actions, different objects, and different time intervals.

Granular reporting.
With the use of advanced event filtering options any administrator can make use of ADAudit Plus to view reports on specific granular actions. For example: Modification to a Domain administrator account from a specific IP address.

Export:
Export various reports to desired formats like csv, html, pdf or xls.

Enhanced efficiency through user initiated scheduled Clean-ups :
Schedule the Clean-up of archaic data from the working ADAudit Plus database and save precious space that complements product efficiency. ADAudit Plus allows this to be executed in a phased and organized manner - with the option to provide different intervals for different categories of audit.

My Reports category that stores only the reports that are of your interest.
It is always an administrator"s desire to view reports on only the audit events that interests them. ADAudit Plus provides an administrator option to configure â€œProfile based reportsâ€ and view them under a separate category - we have named it My Reports category.

A Profile based Reports category which lists domain specific information:
Large organizations have multiple Domains; administrators managing such organizations would like to view Domain specific information. The profile based reports category does exactly this.

Multiple users can access ADAudit Plus:
ADAudit Plus allows multiple technicians to access the product. Helpdesk can access the product by using operator or admin roles delegated to them. Users delegated with admin roles access the product and also manage configurations, user delegated operator roles can only view reports.

Run as a Secure connection:
Apply your organizations" security certificate and run ADAudit Plus application as a secure connection.

Efficient functioning of the application through options like

Event Clean-Up and Restore

Diskspace Alert

Alert on unsuccessful eventlog collections

Delete alerts, Clear alerts

Ensure that only the necessary audit data are held within the application for reporting / alerting needs and all other data are either cleared permanently or stored at a different location for retrieval and re-use at a later date.

Documentation

Here you can find AdAudit Plus product documentation, brochures and guides. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us and one of our specialists will address your inquiry as soon as possible.